I think spec’ing anything OTHER than BM in the expansion would drive my OCD-ness up the wall. “You mean I can’t get those bottom talents for Tux? *claws at desk*”

But on the other hand, I keep looking at the WotLK hunter talent tree and thinking about all the new hybrid possibilities now. I’m talkin’ about the potential to have Serpent’s Swiftness and the Super Trap talents from Survival. Or heck, Serpent’s Swiftness and Trueshot Aura in an unholy union. Or Expose Weakness, Trueshot Aura, Ranged Weapon Specialization, Improved Barrage, and some points in Master Marksman.

Of course, the big question is whether these potential hybrid builds will ever outclass the new talents. But I find it so very, very interesting to think about…

Anyways! I’m sure many of you are sick of hearing about WotLK, and I do find all the news kind of overwhelming myself. So! I will go back to concentrating on playing my current characters and writing about them (as best as I can anyway; I’ve been thinking about the ramifications of having a bunch of out-dated guides on my blog… the good news, though, is that there will always be new hunters who always need Hunter Kindergarten posts. At least, I hope so, between all the Death Knights.)

What bothers me more is that even with 5 extra pet talent points I’m still only limited to one of the bottom tier talents. And I could easily see it getting respecced depending on what I’m doing. The confusing one is their pet tanking tree. All of the bottom tier talents are something you’d want for a tank but you can only choose one.

Huh, I’m using the Cat one and I can get all three talents, I just have to sacrifice a lot of the other talents and just take the ones leading to the bottom tier. Maybe it wasn’t coded right before and they’ve fixed it?

Yeah, they seemed to have fixed the coding on there website and I can officially take up all of the bottom tier as a regular Marksman (Though, I sacrificed Great Stamina and something beyond 1/3 Spiked Collar).

Petopia says that the talent tree looks like this for beta and that the tooltip for the bottom tiers require 20 points, but actually only require 12. I wrote a post about it on my blog.

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Hi, I'm Pike. I like Hunters in World of Warcraft. I play a lot of them, and have been doing so since patch Two Point feckin' Oh.

I did a lot of raids and heroics in Burning Crusade and Wrath of the Lich King, and blogged about them, of course. But then I quit playing for many years because my anxiety started to nibble at me. Now I'm playing again, hopefully to conquer the anxiety raid boss and spread some cheer!

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